claude-fitness-break

claude-fitness-break

A rotating cast of unhinged fitness personalities in your Claude Code status bar.

Every time Claude spawns an agent (which means you have nothing to do for a bit), claude-fitness-break picks a random exercise and yells at you to do it — delivered by claude-haiku doing its best impression of a drill sergeant, an 80s TV fitness coach, a 90s wrestler, or a visibly anxious doctor making up statistics.

🪖 GET DOWN AND GIVE ME TEN PULL-UPS OR I'M DELETING NODE_MODULES AND FORCE-PUSHING YOUR UNTESTED CODE TO PRODUCTION!
🤼 OHHH YEAHHH BROTHER, DROP AND GIVE ME TWENTY PUSH-UPS OR THE MACHO MAN COMES FOR YOU!
💃 Feel the burn, sunshine! Fifteen squats, let's GO GO GO, you gorgeous thing!
👩‍⚕️ Studies show 73% of devs who skip their 60 seconds of plank develop keyboard-claw by 40. Please. Right now.

Install

claude plugin marketplace add adam-ismael/claude-fitness-break
claude plugin install claude-fitness-break@claude-fitness-break
/claude-fitness-break:fitness-setup

/claude-fitness-break:fitness-setup wires the status line into ~/.claude/settings.json for you (idempotent, with a timestamped backup). If you already have a status line, it pipes yours through claude-fitness-break instead of replacing it. Re-running setup also refreshes the bundled status-line helper and repairs stale or duplicate claude-fitness-break status-line entries while preserving unrelated status-line commands.

Requires jq (brew install jq / apt install jq) and the claude CLI on your PATH.

Personalities

Key		Name
sergeant	🪖	Drill Sergeant — Full Metal Jacket energy
coach	💃	80s TV Fitness Coach — peppy, leotards, "feel the burn"
wrestler	🤼	90s Wrestler — Hulk Hogan / Macho Man, all caps, BROTHER
doctor	👩‍⚕️	Anxious Doctor — fabricates urgent-sounding statistics

/claude-fitness-break:fitness-personality list       # show the roster
/claude-fitness-break:fitness-personality wrestler   # pin to one voice
/claude-fitness-break:fitness-personality random     # back to random rotation (default)
/claude-fitness-break:fitness-personality show       # what's currently pinned
/claude-fitness-break:fitness-now                    # trigger a new exercise right now (skips cooldown)

Default is random — a different personality picks you each nudge, with an emoji so you know who's yelling.

Add a new personality by dropping a file in personalities/. Format:

<emoji>|<display name>
<prompt template — use $EXERCISE as the placeholder>

Exercises

claude-fitness-break seeds a personal exercise list from defaults/exercises.txt into Claude's plugin data directory. Your list survives plugin updates and can be managed without editing the plugin checkout:

/claude-fitness-break:fitness-exercises list
/claude-fitness-break:fitness-exercises add 20 jumping jacks
/claude-fitness-break:fitness-exercises edit 2 10 wall push-ups
/claude-fitness-break:fitness-exercises remove 3
/claude-fitness-break:fitness-exercises clear
/claude-fitness-break:fitness-exercises reset
/claude-fitness-break:fitness-exercises path

reset restores the bundled defaults. path shows the editable exercises.txt file if you prefer direct editing.

How it works

• Ships as a Claude Code plugin with .claude-plugin/plugin.json, plugin skills in skills/, and hook scripts in hooks/
• Hooks into SubagentStart, with legacy PreToolUse coverage for the Task tool (Agent on older Claude Code builds)
• Picks a random exercise and personality
• Writes an immediate fallback line to the status bar
• Fires claude-haiku in the background to generate a theatrical roast in the chosen voice
• 5-minute cooldown between nudges so it doesn't spam during rapid multi-agent sessions
• Exercise stays in the status bar for 15 minutes
• /claude-fitness-break:fitness-setup copies the status-line helper into Claude's plugin data directory before wiring ~/.claude/settings.json, so the status line keeps working across plugin cache updates

License

MIT